Sunday Funday Is Glorifying One Day at a Time’s Latinx Supergroup

Welcome back to Sunday Funday, a gathering place for good gay news on your weekend! I’ll be stepping in for Al(aina) for the next few weeks, but they’ll be back before you know it. I hope your weekend has been full of everything awesome; by which I mean I hope you’ve been binging One Day at a Time season three!

+ Lena Waithe wrote an excellent op-ed for Time magazine about Hollywood’s black renaissance and the work that’s still left to be done.

+ How One Day at a Time assembled a Latinx supergroup (including an interview with Stephanie Beatriz about working with Rita Moreno).

+ Janelle Monae opens up about being a black queer woman.

+ At Essence: “By speaking truth to power, these Black LGBTQ+ activists are reminding us that the only way we are ever going to be fully liberated is by making the personal, political.”

+ Guides at historic palaces in the UK have been given the go-ahead to talk about all the lesbian shenanigans in royal court history. Thanks, The Favourite!

+ The BBC spoke to dozens of young lesbians in Burundi, where being gay is still illegal, about how they connect with each other and go about their day-to-day lives.

+ Here’s what Hannah Gadsby’s up to next.

+ Laneia told you about the new period emoji that’s on the way — but wait, there’re more! Gender neutral couples!

+ Another day, another study about how kids raised by gay parents do better at school.

+ Vanity Fair’s 25 most influential movie scenes of the past 25 years includes a little gayness (and one of the coolest multimedia layouts I have ever seen).

+ Sydney’s rainbow crossing is coming back, hopefully this time for good!

+ Sara Ramirez is not here for Twitter removing the search results for #20BiTeen.

+ Kirsten Gillibrand has introduced a bipartisan bill to allow trans people to serve openly in the U.S. military.

+ Democratic Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco has introduced a bill to the California state legislature that would limit surgery on intersex babies.

+ Ahead of the Grammys, Brandi Carlile is talking about the power of queer representation in music.

+ Your favorite pop culture couples illustrated (including, of course, Carol and Therese).

+ And finally, please enjoy Billy Porter’s State of the Union.

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Heather Hogan

Heather Hogan is an Autostraddle senior editor who lives in New York City with her wife, Stacy, and their cackle of rescued pets. She's a member of the Television Critics Association, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, and a Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer critic. You can also find her on Twitter and Instagram.

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5 Comments

  1. binging One Day at a Time season three and rooting for Brandi Carlisle and Linda Perry on the Grammys.
    Linda could make music industry history on Sunday night. The former 4 Non Blondes front woman is the first woman to be nominated on her own for the Non-Classical Producer of the Year Grammy since 1999–and no woman has ever taken home the award.

  3. one day at a time season three aka a valid reason to sit in my bed eating cheesecake and watching netflix for thirteen episodes. i laughed, i cried, i texted people about consent

  4. Maybe there was a mix up – but I thought the award for the coolest multimedia layout would in my opinion go to the BBC piece about the lesbians in Burundi. Very fascinating and illustrated perfectly.

    The 25 Most Influential Movie-piece from Vanity Fair is interesting as well, but not sure how its multimedia layout is standing out from a normal article?

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